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Word: humanize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...murder of the priests is only one of many horrific acts we have implicitly sponsored in El Salvador and in the rest of Central America. It's time we replaced a simplistic and dubious fear of Soviet domination with a concern for human rights...

Author: By Ghita Schwarz, | Title: Cold War in Central America | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

Dubcek urged the Soviet Union, East Germany andBulgaria to join Poland and Hungary in condemningthe 1968 invasion that smashed his attempt tocreate "socialism with a human face...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Czech Premier Meets Opposition Leaders | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...Soviet Union signaled support for thedevelopments in Czechoslovakia yesterday with anarticle by Gorbachev in the Communist Party dailyPravda that praised Dubcek's catchphrase"socialism with a human face...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Czech Premier Meets Opposition Leaders | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...team of medical researchers has devised a technique that may eventually help parents sidestep this predicament. Scientists at the Illinois Masonic Medical Center and Northwestern University, led by geneticist Yury Verlinsky, say they can test for genetic defects in the human egg even before it has been fertilized. The technique could enable thousands of mothers with a family history of genetic disorders to avoid giving birth to an afflicted child without having to undergo abortion. Dr. C. Thomas Caskey, president of the American Society of Human Genetics, calls the new method "promising" but stresses that more testing is needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: An Early-Warning System | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...procedure, reported last week at a meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics in Baltimore, is based on analysis of the "first polar body," a small packet of chromosomes sloughed off from the human egg during cell division. First the researchers remove several eggs from a woman's ovaries. Next the first polar body is detached, and a new genetic test called ! polymerase chain reaction is employed to analyze the chromosomes, which are complementary to those left in the egg's nucleus. Eggs that are not defective can then be selected and used in an increasingly common procedure known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: An Early-Warning System | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

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